All the headlines from our Insurance Wholesale Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 20 2011 // Jacksonville-based Fidelity National Property and Casualty Insurance Co., which covers some 12,000 homeowners in the state, is seeking a statewide average 27 percent rate increase.At a public rate hearing, Fidelity...
May 20 2011 // The simmering compensation conflict between London’s broker community and the underwriters they work with erupted following a keynote speech given by the Catlin Group’s chief executive Stephen Catlin this week...
May 17 2011 // The UK’s BMS Group announced that its Lloyd’s Managing General Agent subsidiary, Pioneer Underwriting and JH Intermediaries have added two new employees: John Andrews, as Business Development Director and Jade...
May 16 2011 // With 30 years of insurance industry experience under his belt, one Texas-based insurance executive decided recently it was time to open his own operation to serve the insurance needs of the growing Hispanic population....
May 16 2011 // Sometimes bigger is not always better. Large wholesale organizations have a place in the market, but smaller and often family-owned managing general agencies (MGA) also have a place, says Wayne Forest, the incoming...
Mar 31 2011 // Socius Insurance Services Inc., a San Francisco-based management liability and property and casualty insurance wholesaler, announced the appointment of Anna Vu as assistant vice president in the firm’s Los Angeles...
Mar 24 2011 // Arrowhead Wholesale Insurance Services LLC has added Christie Urita, as the company’s new assistant vice president of its professional liability division. Experienced in all areas of professional liability,...
Mar 3 2011 // Maritime General Agency announced its newly formed business identity, which it said “combines three niche marine insurance underwriting facilities: Maritime Program Group; Maritime General Agency, Marine MGA, and...
Feb 21 2011 // The California Insurance Wholesalers Association honored David F. Anderson, chairman of Anderson & Murison, with its Wholesale Industry Award.Anderson was a founding president of CIWA from 1991 to 1993. He served on...
Feb 10 2011 // AmWINS Group, Inc. has acquired American Southwest Insurance Managers, Inc., Excel General Agency, Inc. and Oakwood Software Insurance Solutions, LLC. ASIM is a managing general agents for non-standard automobile insurance...
Feb 8 2011 // The California Insurance Wholesalers Association has honored David F. Anderson, chairman of Anderson & Murison, with its Wholesale Industry Award.Anderson was a founding president of CIWA from 1991 to 1993. He served...
Feb 1 2011 // Ryan Specialty Group, LLC (RSG) has launched CivicRisk (CRU), a managing general underwriter specializing in excess casualty coverage for public entities which includes, but is not limited to, cities, counties, school...
Jan 27 2011 // The next step in the launch of the UK’s Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) was successfully achieved this week, following the final meeting in a round of consultative discussions with key stakeholders,...
Jan 20 2011 // Chicago-based Ryan Specialty Group LLC (RSG) has launched Technical Risk Underwriters (TRU), a specialty managing general underwriter (MGU) focused on providing best in class underwriting for complex construction and...
Jan 10 2011 // Welcome to Insurance Journal’s 2011 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
Jan 10 2011 // GAINSCO Inc. (NYSE Amex: GAN), an insurance holding company headquartered in Dallas, has announced it will voluntarily suspend trading of its common stock. The company reports there are fewer than 300 holders of its common...
Jan 5 2011 // Effective January 5 2011 – Laurel Fowler Insurance Broker, Inc – California based wholesaler is appointing Wholesalers, Surplus lines Brokers and MGA’s in Texas, California, Florida and most States, to...
Dec 20 2010 // December is often a time of reflection on what we’ve achieved, where we’ve stumbled and what lessons we will take forward into the New Year.When Lloyd’s published its three-year strategy earlier this...
Dec 5 2010 // Frost Insurance in Austin, Texas promoted Sheri Smyth to vice president of personal lines. Smyth, a 23-year insurance industry veteran, manages the personal lines department’s growth and retention efforts, and...
Dec 5 2010 // The current insurance program market is mature and stable, with business estimated at $20 billion, but profitability may be declining, according to a new survey of program administrators (PA) and managing general agents...